jfeheej ! m \ A ttoo Sheep In the West . We are asked by a correspondent what part of Dakota would be best for a man to go to with a flook of 1 , 000 sheep . These questions abont locality we cannot answer . A little reflection will show why . Men do not think alike , and what might please ns might not please another . We frequently pass in this city a rather oddly constructed dwelling house , which suits our fanoy . We think it would be difficult to produce greater beauty in house construction , and the oddity of the structure being sufficient always to call attention to it , it is the subject of conversation usually whenever we pass it in company with others . But we presume that we have heard quite as many say that it was horribly ugly as we have heard say that it was beautiful . Again , here is a man who , lives in Illinois , and thinks that there is no other section in the world that can compare with it . Bat the Pennsylvanian who was born and bred among the sturdy hills of tha...

%$ i * m New Source of Honey in Michigan . Prof . Cook writes in Philadelphia Press ** follows : Lately I have received several samp les of what has been styled Manna grass by those sending it . It oomes from Ohio and Michigan . The grass was spooked with crystals of sngar , mnoh as though it had been dipped in sngar syrup . Flaoed in the month , or on the tongne , it seemed as if it might have been sprinkled with granulated sngar . The sweet was very pleasant to the taste . Upon close examination I fonnd the grass was the seat of a thrifty plantation of ergot . Many of the seeds or kernels had the purpleblack ergot grains . I gave the ergot to Dr . Grange , onr veterinarian , and told him of the coating of sngar , whioh I supposed must arise from insects , though I could find none of the latter . Soon after Dr . Orange kindly referred me to a work on veterinary medicine , where ergot was described and the honeyed secretion given as a characteristic marking of the early stages of th...

IM *® fjw * Raising Poultry . EDITOBS WESTEBN RUBAI .: —Buff Cochins were the first of the Asiatics to become popular in England , and their great beauty and splendid proportions , jind value in a practical point of view , have kept them in favor and undiminished popularity to the present . It is rather difficult to breed them to a rioh , even buff color , free from blaok or white in wings , bnt really high class Buffs will always bring a good price . Up to within a few years the finest Buffs were bred in England , but the importations whioh have been made by prominent breeders , will undoubtedly go far towards the improvement of the breed in this country . The fanciers of the West are undoubtedly ahead of those of tbe East in the cultivation of this breed , and it may be said truly that some of the finest Buffs in the world are now bred in the West . Duck raising is profitable if rightly managed . It is not absolutely necessary that the ducks have a pond or stream of water , but th...

paragraph ^ —Bow many sides has a round plnm pudding ? Two—inside and outside . : —There is one town in Connecticut that has no fear of the measles . It s Haddam . —A Quinoy , Illinois , debating society has decided that there is more pleasure in seeing a man thread a needle than in watching a woman s attempt to drive a nail . —Cameron Richards is four years old , and just beginning to observe the wonders of nature . One-evening , he turned from the window where he had been contemplating the appearance of the young orescent , and exclaimed , O , Lena , the moon s broke !